The BBC’s Mark Urban And The Independent’s Adrian Hamilton On Iraq
On the May 14 edition of Newsnight, the BBC’s Mark Urban reported from Iraq that the US troop "surge" was an attempt to "turn the tide of violence" in Baghdad. Urban did not mean it was an attempt to turn the tide of violence in America’s favour and against its enemies - the media essentially never present the war in terms of conquest and resistance. The Americans are fighting for ‘security‘, ’stability’ and ‘peace’, not victory.
Urban made his opinion clear, referring to "Baghdad's sectarian nightmare" and to the "American struggle to stop its [Baghdad's] descent into mayhem". If America were fighting for its own version of victory, rather than peace, it would have to be charged with causing, not resisting, “mayhem” - but this was not Urban’s argument. Hence the following observation:
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070522_the_surge_here.php
On the May 14 edition of Newsnight, the BBC’s Mark Urban reported from Iraq that the US troop "surge" was an attempt to "turn the tide of violence" in Baghdad. Urban did not mean it was an attempt to turn the tide of violence in America’s favour and against its enemies - the media essentially never present the war in terms of conquest and resistance. The Americans are fighting for ‘security‘, ’stability’ and ‘peace’, not victory.
Urban made his opinion clear, referring to "Baghdad's sectarian nightmare" and to the "American struggle to stop its [Baghdad's] descent into mayhem". If America were fighting for its own version of victory, rather than peace, it would have to be charged with causing, not resisting, “mayhem” - but this was not Urban’s argument. Hence the following observation:
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070522_the_surge_here.php